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Spark: A book review by Bob Morris

March 5, 2013

Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain John Ratey with Eric Hagerman Little, Brown and Company (2008) Note: I recently re-read this book while working on a review of another book. In my opinion, the information, insights,…

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One Man, One Computer, 10 Million Students: How Khan Academy Is Reinventing Education

March 5, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Michael Noer for Forbes magazine. To read the complete article, check out other resources, obtain subscription information, and sign up for email alerts, please click here. * * * The…

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BrandingPays: A book review by Bob Morris

March 4, 2013

BrandingPays: The Five-Step System to Reinvent Your Personal Brand Karen Kang BrandingPays Media (2013) How to create or increase demand for the authentic value you offer For hundreds of years, people have branded their livestock for identification purposes. Samuel Augustus…

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Embrace Work-Life Imbalance

March 4, 2013

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic for Harvard Business Review and the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR…

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The Ghost Map: A book review by Bob Morris

March 4, 2013

The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic–and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World Steven Johnson Riverhead Press/Penguin Group (2006) The Paradox of Water: It’s both the problem and (no pun intended) the solution The…

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Global Tilt and the Dexterity That Cross-Cultural Management Now Requires

March 4, 2013

I recently read Ram Charan’s latest book, Global Tilt: Leading Your Business Through the Great Economic Power Shift, whose title refers to the fact that “the world has tilted. Its economic center has shifted from what have traditionally been called…

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Ryan Smith (Qualtrics) in “The Corner Office”

March 3, 2013

Adam Bryant conducts interviews of senior-level executives that appear in his “Corner Office” column each week in the SundayBusiness section of The New York Times. Here are a few insights provided during an interview of  Ryan Smith, a co-founder and the C.E.O. of Qualtrics, a…

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Global Tilt: A book review by Bob Morris

March 3, 2013

Global Tilt: Leading Your Business Through the Great Economic Power Shift Ram Charan Crown Business (February 2013) For leaders in global companies, here are a compass, GPS, searchlight, x-ray machine, and microscope to find their way I have read and…

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 2/25/13)

March 3, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Global Tilt: Leading Your Business Through the Great Economic Power Shift Ram Charan The AIG Story Maurice R. Greenberg and Lawrence…

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The AIG Story: A book review by Bob Morris

March 2, 2013

The AIG Story Maurice R. Greenberg and Lawrence Cunningham John Wiley & Sons (2013) A “story” whose complexity defies pure objectivity but one that comes about as close as one could to explaining what happened Although two co-authors are identified,…

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